Gas-meter-connecting device.



H. F. GRAY & F. E. STEVENS. GAS METER GONNEGTING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED 0GT.24, 1907.

l l i i l UNETED STATEEs PATENT oEIEIoE.

HENRY E. GRAY ANDFRANK E. STEVENS, or COLUMBUS, OHIO, Ass'IcNORs To I un STAND- ARD APPLIANCE COMPANY, oE'CoLUMRU's, OHIO, A CORPORATION or onIo.

GAS-METER-CONNECTING DEVICE.-

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led October 2t, 1907. Serial No. 398,870.

a certain new and useful Improvement in dvertical sectional view of the Gas-Meter-Connecting Devices, of which the following is a specification.

To connect gas meters with the street and house pipes, the latter are often .strained to get them into osition for effecting the connection, and w en the connection 1s effected the strain of the ipes is transmittedl to' the meter, rendering 1t liable to be ruptured.

One of the objects of this invention is to provide improved means for facilitating and cheapening the connection of the streetand house pipes with the meter and relieving the strain on the meter. 'i

Other objects will appear from the following specification.

n the accompanying drawing- Figure 1 illustrates our invention as used in connection with a meter; lig. 2 is ,'`i -,bottom plan view of the parts of the joint in the device closed, with the fastening devices removed; Fig. 3 is a similar view` showing the parts somewhat extended; Fig. 4e is a longitudinal arts at the joint including the fastening' evic'es; livig.

.5 is a cross section taken on line Fig. 4.

Our meter-connecting. device 1s made u mainly of two parts or castings 6 and 7geac having an'enlarged portion rovided with a cavity, as seen at 8 in the rig t hand portion Iiig, l, said lportion being threaded as seen at 9 and 10 for connection of the gas pipe proper 11 and thecoupling on the meter, as

VIndlcated at 12.. The exterior of the enlarged portion at the end of each of the parts 6 andA 7 is formed for theA reception of a wrench, eachlpart rior to the `connection of the arts together eing independently oper' to turn them onto the ends oi the gasx ate laft'ongue ffhavi'ng slots 6b and 6, the

tongue being flanked at each side at the upper side Figfl' by flanges, as indicated at 6?, near its root. The under side (Fig. 1) of the said'tongue is iianged or Walled, as indicated at 6e, around the slots 6b and 6c to afford means to prevent the nuts from turning.y The part 7 is made with a tongue 7 *having circular holes 7b and 7c and flanged near its root with flanges as indicated at 7d, and israbbeted at its end to iit between the lianges 6d and lap u on the upper sideof the tongue '6% tongues 6 and 7a respectively limits the movement of the parts-6 toward each other. The tongues thus constructed adjustably match eachV other and. when the parts are 'secured together, as 'by screw boltsj 18 and 14 and nuts 13EL and 14a, they are rrnly held together and from flexing in any direction, flexing in one direction being prevented by the engagement of the parts 6 and 7 them The connecting device thus constructed.- is nicely adaptable within -limitsto variations in the size of meters, and in practice after the application of the two parts of the device to the respective ends ofthe as ipe, they are slid u on each other until t et eads for the atta@ ment of the meter are 'at just tle right points to receive the couplings of the meter. Hence all'strain of the plpesiproper is borne by the device and not by the' meter.

1 With this construction it will be observed that thejcusto'mary union in the gas pipe is dispensed with.

L What we claim and yters Patent is; t K v 1. A connecting devicerfor meters, .comprising in combination two. separate. independently-operative parts each having a cavity at one of its ends and provided with threaded openings into said 'cavity for the reception of a gas pipe and a coupling on the meter, one of said parts provided with a tongue 6"v having iianking flanges 6d and walls 6e and' the other havinga tongue 7 and flanges 74. said tongues having holes and slots, bolts and nuts for securing vsaid tongues together, substantially as and for the purpose desire to secure by Letset forth.

The s oulder 6" or 7f on the Patented Jan. 12, 1909.

.2. A 'connecting device for gas meters, tongues integrad with said parts, and means comprising two separate parts each having for securing said tongues to ether.

a. cavity at one of its ends andprovided with HENRY GRAY,

threaded openings into said cavity for .the FRANK E. STEVENS. 5 reception of a, gas pipe and a coupling on the Witnesses: t

meter, said ends being constructed to e- BENJAMIN FINCKEL,

ceive a. wrench, and interengaging lapping ALICE B; COOK: 

